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1. Leonard Peltier Solidarity Fast/Hunger Strike Update and Sign-up
2. Background
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 08:50:10 -0800
From: arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Leonard Peltier Solidarity Fast/Hunger Strike Is Growing!
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From; NORTHWEST LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT NETWORK
P.O. BOX 5464
TACOMA, WA 98415-0464 USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER STRIKE UP-DATE
Greetings,
We now have 5 more days before the beginning of the Leonard Peltier
Solidarity Fast/Hunger Strike. 5 more days to build this. It has already
grown far larger than any of us had hoped for. At this time we have 50
fasters (see list below our statement at the bottom of this message) and
46 additional support people who will be getting the faster's statements
out.
Often, it is said that we are powerless against the forces of greed and
oppression. I have never believed that. For, I believe, that the only time
we are powerless is when we decide not to use our power. All those people
who have made the conscious decision to organize for the February 6th
International Day In Solidarity With Leonard Peltier, all those that have
made the conscious decision to come out on that day, and all those that
have joined the Leonard Peltier Solidarity Fast/ Hunger Strike are making a
clear statement that we are not powerless. Each person is important, for
the power of this struggle is the accumiation of all of its parts.
These actions are further steps in a long struggle. They are a direct
continuation of all that has been done before them, and they are the bridge
to the future success of our struggle. For I have never had any doubt that
as long as we continue to struggle and build that struggle in the spirit of
unity, we will see Leonard free.
The forces of evil believe that they can do anything they want to
Leonard, frame him up, deny him all his rights, continue to harass him
within the iron house, and now torture him. The Leonard Peltier Solidarity
Fast/Hunger Strike is an act of drawing a line in the dirt and saying that
we will not allow this to continue!
Some fasters will be fasting in shifts, as for me personally, I will be
fasting as long as it is necessary. For too many years this has gone on,
for too many years the brick wall of the government's lies and cover-ups
has blocked our path. It is time to take a stand on a higher level of
personal commitment. I will not be fasting just for Leonard, for the
struggle of Leonard has long since become a struggle of the people against
the forces of the greedy evil madness that is a plague upon our world.
The purpose of the fast/hunger strike is to call attention to the torture
of Leonard and to motivate people to act to end that torture. Everyone is
welcome to help. You can join the fast/hunger strike, you can aid the
fast/hunger strike by helping to get out the statements of the fasters, and
you send daily messages to the BOP. An e-mail list has been set up for the
fast/hunger strike as an act of solidarity by the Telecom & Computer
Worker' Local 23. Upon this list all the statements of the fasters will be
posted. To get on to this list please send a message with subscribe to
peltier-fast on the subject line to: peltier-fast-request@ iww.org. I wish
to thank everyone who has joined us and has helped us. Without all of you
this action could not be what it has become
In Solidarity
Arthur J. Miller
NWLPSN
END THE TORTURE OF LEONARD PELTIER NOW!
THE LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER STRIKE
STATEMENT
Whereas, the medical condition of American Indian Movement activist and
political prisoner Leonard Peltier is severe and could become potentially
life threating, the repeated denials by the federal prison system, for two
and a half years, of the necessary medical treatment offered by the Mayo
Clinic is nothing other than politically motivated torture. Leonard Peltier
has been, and is, living daily in excrutiating pain. The U.S. Government
should be held accountable for this act of torture. Should Leonard
Peltier's condition become critical, the denial of medical treatment
offered for free by the Mayo Clinic should be viewed as an act of attempted
murder.
Therefore, THE LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER
STRIKE will begin on February 6th, and has the purpose of calling attention
to and helping to mobilize support to end the torture of Leonard Peltier.
This campaign will continue until Leonard is undergoing treatment in the
Mayo Clinic.
Upon February 6th, we are asking those who can to join us on this hunger
strike. Each day of the fast two different fasters will issue a statement,
one in the morning and one in the evening, in their own words calling for
the end of the torture. We are also asking people who support this campaign
to help widely distribute these statements.
Furthermore, we are asking that supporters on each day of the hunger
strike e-mail messages to: Ms. Kathleen Hawk, Director, Bureau Of Prisons
at: [EMAIL PROTECTED], asking that Leonard be allowed medical treatment at
the Mayo Clinic. We are also asking supporters to take whatever positive
local actions will advance this campaign.
In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse
Fasters/Hunger
Strikers
Dale Pfeiffer, Clarkston, Michigan, IWW Delegate, novelist
Arthur J. Miller, Tacoma, Washington, coordinator of the Northwest Leonard
Peliter Support Network, IWW Delegate, publisher of Bayou La Rose, marine
pipefitter.
William Boemmels, Stratford, Connecticut, Malecite, Engineer
Gina Chiala, Lawrence, Kansas, International Office of the Leonard Peltier
Defense Committee.
Keith McHenry, Lawrence, Kansas, International Office of the Leonard
Peltier Defense Committee.
Ron (Saquiiyona) Dunning, Tupper Lake, New York, Shawnee, Adult Basic
Education Teacher NYS Dept. Of Corrections, jewelry maker, traditional
story teller, ornamental gardener/contractor.
Lois Brooks
Barbara Fortier, Atlanta, Georgia, Leonard Peltier Support Group- Atlanta,
ballet dancer, teacher and dance school director.
Waabnong Kwe, Toronto, Ontario, Tsalagi and Ojibway Nations, AIDS Educator.
Becky Delaney, Rushville, OH
Darlene Holland-Hayter, Crystal River, Florida, Choctaw/Cherokee,
Recording Secretary Native American Indian Center of
Citrus/Levy counties of Florida.
Pilar de La Serna, Basque Country, Spain, Se Ven Sioux Kolektibo, Leonard
Peltier Support Group-Basque Country.
John Rosania, Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade.
Rachel Ann Carey-Harper, Dennis (Cape Cod), Massachusetts,
Yarmouth Friends Meeting, Sisters of the Light, volunteer with Homes For
Seven Generations, Clothesline Project.
Debbie Hagopian
Quwahia Whisperingfire, Saint Petersburg, Florida, Navajo Artisan, poet.
Reid Freeman Jenkins, Atlanta, Georgia, Coordinator Leonard Peltier
Support Group-Atlanta, printer.
Kyle Browning, Lawrence, Kansas, President Amnesty International local
chapter/group #172.
Jeff Parente, State College, Pennsylvania, Student
Brooke Sluder, Hartfort City, Indiana, Mohawk & Osage, Autoworker,
Photographer, writer.
Cliff Alles-Curie, Leonard Peltier Support Group-West Michigan Cathie
Dever, Rochester, Michigan
Dmitri Ryabinia, Krasnodar, Russia, Federation Anarchists Koban, Pressman
Ioso Fernandez Albeniz, Pamplona, Basque Country Spain, Se Ven Sioux
Kolektibo, Leonard Peltier Support Group-Basque, cereals merchant.
Bernard Blanc, Lorques, France, writer, translator.
Teresa Carr, Student, Spartanburg Tech.
Trudi Blue, Midlothian, Virginia
Laurie Nape wastewin Wheeler, Florence, Alabama, Lakota, American Indian
Movement.
Scott sa wu-yo- nv Wheeler, Florence, Alabama, American Indian Movement.
Dru Schisn, Denver, Colorado, Graduate Social Work Student.
Sarah Adesijj, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, Customer Support Rep. at Minnegasco.
White Feather Siouxson, Napa, California, Sioux, Holistic Nurse. John Moss
"Crow Wolf", Millbrook, Alabama, Oglala, Susquehennock Church of
NatiTheresa Laino, Brooklyn-New York Leonard Peltier Support Group Joann
Magers, New Jersey Leonard Peltier Support Group
Denise Maney, Madison, WI
Elizabeth Anne Payne, Clarkston, Michigan, IWW, co0founder of the
Evansville Domestic Violence Task Force.
Jim Lawler, Atlanta, Georgia, cartoonist, sculptor, house-painter Bob
Manross, Atlanta, Georgia, Maintenance man
Fulton Arrington, Tate, Georgia, Cherokee, Mechanic
Rob Ervin, Atlanta, Georgia, Cherokee, Roofer, Student
Jose Javier Bermudez, Pamplona, Basque Country, Se Ven Sioux Kolektibo,
Leonard Peltier Support Group-Basque Country.
Fermin Martin, Pamplona, Basque Country, Se Ven Sioux Kolektibo, Leonard
Peltier Support Group-Basque Country
Mike Branum, Detroit, Michigan, Leonard Peltier Support Group-Detroit.
Christopher Domhnall Mag Uidhir, Providence, Rhode Island, Irish
Republican Socialist Committee of North America, Graduate Student Jesse
Alt, Ithaca, New York, Student
Keyga Ohda Sweetcorn, Sisseton Wahpeton
Gorka Ramos Hervella, Barcelona, (Catalunya) Spain, Clandestin@ (prisoner
support & against prisons anarchist group).
George Baldwin
FASTERS SIGN-UP
Name____________________________________________________
Organizational affiliation, tribe, profession, city, state, country,
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
Means of contact (e-mail or street or P.O. Box address)___________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
Support person for faster (name and means of contact)____________
_________________________________________________________
FOR THOSE NOT FASTING BUT WHO CAN HELP SPREAD THE
STATEMENTS OF THE FASTERS AND HELP WITH THE E-MAIL
CAMPAIGN
Name____________________________________________________
Means of contact___________________________________________
Please return this to: the NWLPSN at; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:12:31 -0800
From: arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NWLPSN Press Statement
From: NORTHWEST LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT NETWORK
P.O. BOX 5464
TACOMA, WA 98415-0464 USA
(253) 383-9108
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PRESS STATEMENT
Subject: THE INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH
LEONARD PELTIER, FEBRUARY 6, 1999, AND THE
LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER
STRIKE BEGINNING ON FEBRUARY 6, 1999.
BACKGROUND
Leonard Peltier is an Ojibwa-Lakota, American Indian Movement (AIM)
activist who was framed on murder charges in the deaths of two FBI agents
in a fire fight on the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota Reservation in South
Dakota. The first two AIM members to go on trial were found not guilty by
reason of self-defense. Leonard was extradited from Canada based on false
documents given to the Canadian court. The US government transferred
Leonard's trial from the original judge to a hand-picked judge who would
not allow self-defense evidence or evidence of the government's illegal use
of false documents and other abuses. To insure Leonard's conviction, the
government fabricated ballistics reports and coerced witnesses into giving
false testimony. All these things have been proven by Leonard's lawyers
over the years to such an extent that the U.S. Prosecutor in this case, Mr.
Lynn Crooks, has stated that there is no evidence directly connecting
Leonard to the deaths of the agents. The only evidence they have is that
he was there that day, thus in their minds he is guilty of "aiding and
abetting." Since the first two AIM members were found not guilty for
reason of self-defense, this means that Leonard has been locked up for 23
years for "aiding and abetting" an act of self-defense.
THE DENIAL OF MEDICAL TREATMENT
Leonard is currently suffering from complications of a previous
maxilla-facial surgery at the Springfield Medical Prison facility. In that
operation Leonard almost died. Not only did the surgery not improve
Leonard's condition, it became far worse. Leonard is now in continuous,
excruciating pain. He cannot open his mouth enough to bite food, nor can he
even chew. The renowned maxilla-facial surgeon Doctor Keller of the Mayo
Clinic has written to the prison telling them that he is willing to treat
Leonard for free. So far the federal Bureau Of Prisons has refused to let
Leonard be treated. The person overseeing this denial is
Ms. Kathleen Hawk, Director,
Bureau Of Prisons, 320 First St., Washington, DC 20534,
phone (202) 307-3198. e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FEBRUARY 6, 1999 INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER
On February 6, 1999, the day that marks the 23rd year since Leonard's
arrest, supporters will be holding marches and rallies. The following list
includes many of the places these marches and rallies will take place;
Albany, NY; Victoria, BC; Louisville, KY; Brussels, Belgium; London,
England; Houston, TX; Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; San Diego, CA; Nashville,
TN; Rapid City, SD; Springfield, MA; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Washington,
DC; Portland, Maine; Tacoma, WA; Eugene, OR; Denver, CO; Paris, France;
Pontiac, MI; San Francisco, CA; Toronto, Ontario; Atlanta, GA; Cincinnati,
OH; Kent, OH; Lawrence, KS; Starkville, MS.
From more information contact: The Leonard Peltier Defense
Committee, (785) 842-5774, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
THE LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER STRIKE
The LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER STRIKE will
begin on February 6, 1999. At this point there are 40 people in the U.S.,
Canada, France, Basque Country and Russia who have joined in the
fast/hunger strike. The purpose of this action is to draw attention to the
continuing denial of medical treatment for Leonard Peltier. We view that
this denial is politically motivated and, because this denial is causing
Leonard to live in continuous pain, we consider this to be no less than an
act of torture. On each day of the fast/hunger strike there will be two
statements issued by different members of this campaign.
From more information contact the Northwest Leonard Peltier Support
Network at: (253) 383-9108, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Leonard Peltier Solidarity Fast/Hunger Strike Is Growing!
